Prisoner Walks Off Work Crew

A New Haven man, serving a three-year term for a drug violation, walked away Saturday from a trustee job he was working for the state Nutmeg Games in Bridgeport, state police said.

Ricardo Anes, 24, formerly of 333 Blatchley Ave., was loading boxes about 10:30 a.m. at Bridgeport's town hall at 999 Main St., said state police, when he fled. One state Department of Correction guard was assigned to control the trustee inmates working the games for state amateur athletes. But the inmates were not directly guarded, police said. The inmates were expected to return to the guard after their work assignments.

Anes had served about one year of his term at the Cheshire Correctional Institution, police said.